This is beautiful and worthy of all our veterans.
Be sure to click on the Film Strip at the end.
BEFORE YOU GO
Bierstock, 58, and John Melnick, 54, of Pompano Beach
- a member of Bierstock's band, Dr. Sam and the Managed Care Band - have written a song inspired by that old soldier
in the airport parking lot. The mournful 'Before You Go' does more than salute those who fought in WWII.
It encourages people to go out of their way to thank the aging warriors before they die.
If we had lost that particular war, our whole way of life would have been shot, says
Bierstock, who plays harmonica. 'The WW II soldiers are now dying at the rate of about 2,000 every day.
I thought we needed to thank them.'
The song is striking a chord. Within
four days of Bierstock placing it on the Web, the song and accompanying photo essay have bounced around nine countries,
producing tears and heartfelt thanks from veterans, their sons and daughters and grandchildren.
'It made me cry,'
wrote one veteran's son. Another sent an e-mail saying that only after his father consumed several glasses of wine would
he discuss ' the unspeakable horrors' he and other soldiers had witnessed in places such as Anzio, Iwo Jima, Bataan
and Omaha Beach. 'I can never thank them enough,' the son wrote. 'Thank you for thinking about them.'
Bierstock and Melnick thought about shipping it off to a professional singer, maybe a Lee Greenwood type, but because
time was running out for so many veterans, they decided it was best to release it quickly, for free, on the Web. They've
sent the song to Sen. John McCain and others in Washington. Already they have been invited to perform it in Houston for
a Veterans Day tribute - this after just a few days on the Web. They hope every veteran in America gets a chance to hear
it.
GOD BLESS every EVERY veteran...and THANK you to
those of you veterans who may see this !
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